Beyond Answers

<p><i>Beyond Answers: Exploring Mathematical Practices with Young Children</i> author <b>Mike Flynn</b> provides teachers with a clear and deep sense of the Standards for Mathematical Practice and shares ideas on how to best implement them in K-2 classrooms.</p><p>Each chapter is dedicated to one of the eight common core standards. Using examples from his own teaching and vignettes from many other K-2 teachers <b>Flynn</b> does the following:</p><ul> <li>Invites you to break the cycle of teaching math procedurally</li> <li>Demonstrates what it means for children to understand not just do math</li> <li>Explores what it looks like when young children embrace the important behaviors espoused by the practices</li> <li>The book's extensive collection of stories from K-2 classroom provides readers with glimpses of classroom dialogue teacher reflections and examples of student work.</li> <li>Focus questions at the beginning of each vignette help you analyze the examples and encourage further reflection.</li> </ul><p><i>Beyond Answers</i> is a wonderful resource that can be used by individual teachers study groups professional development staff and in math methods courses.</p>